The Sun. — London, England, 1838-01-04 00:00:00

SPI LT OPTIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Wie know nothing of the arrangements with respect to tlee meeting at the Crown and Anchor this day. It is, no doubt, an open one ; and if only persons entertaining opt vsions fivourable to the insurgents or rebels in Lower Ca nada choose to attend, all we can say is, that they who en .tertain different opinions, and do not choose to attend, tkte wanting in their duty to their countrymen ; bath in the anadas and at home. We confess we do not like the eeline which has been growing rapidly of late years, of or l c - class keeping back from public meetings because they will not mix with another class. It used to be stated by the Manchester Guardian some years ago, in order to account for the proceedings at public meetings in Manchester, that it had become impossible to induce the more re spectable class of inhabitants to attend public meetings. The S 41114: thing bas been said of Birmingham and some other !arse towns. We own that we do not like this ezeinsive spirit, which is, we think, unmanly and unbeeotoirig. With all submission to our correspon dent, Mr. Arber, it would better become him an .l the tradesmen who share his views, to face the Working Men's Association at the Crown and Anchor, than, by holding back, allow that to pass for the opinion of the City of Westminster, which they say is only the opi nion of a body of men at the command of Messrs. Leader, Roebuck, Grote, Wakley, Molesworth, &c., and who shift their ground from the Crown and Anchor. to White Conduit House, and from White Conduit House to the Yorkshire Stingo, the Nightingale, or the Eyre Arms Ta vern, according to the wishes of the gentlemen in question. When the Duke of Wellington termed a county meeting a farce, he said no more than is said by those who will not attend public meetings because certain other parties will attend. It is intended that the resolutions passed at the meeting this day should go forth to the Canadians as the resolutions of the people of Westminster ; and there is net a doubt, that if the propositions stated in the announce ment are passed in the affirmative, they will have the effect of encouraging the French Canadians to hold out, and of discouraging the men of British blood in the Canadas. For our part, we have again and again said that we are no great admirers of Colonial Go vernment, conceiving it to entail a heavy expense on the parent State, and to labour under the radi cal defect of having no means of securing the depend ence of the governed but such as almost necessarily lead to heart-hurnings and discontent. In the case of Bri tish colonies there is always one inevitable source of jar ring ; the colonists are from the very nature of things de mocratically disposed, and the Government of the mother country being aristocratical, the connections and hangers on of the Aristocracy are disposed of in the Colonies. A strong feeling, we know, is entertained by many Reformers that the possession of colonies is wily an indirect way of enabling the Aristocracy to pocket the taxes paid by the people of England. We remember well the deep impres sion made on the people of these kingdoms, some twenty years ago, by an article in the Edinburgh Review, written by the roost brilliant of our living writers, in which he vi vidly traced the connection between Aristocracy and colo nial extension, and observed that no rock in the middle of the ocean was too insignificant for the English nobility and gentry, who saw in its occupation a source of income for their families. The combined feelings of dislike to Aristocracy, dislike to taxation, supposed to be greatly increased by Colonies, and dislike to commercial restraints, with a view to force the consumption of articl e , ' which would not be bought if commerce were free, are all at work at present throughout the country. We observe diet immense pains have been taken by the advocates of the Canadians in preparing the public mind, as it is called. We have now before us reprints in the forms of placards and pamphlets of almost everything that has appeared in magazines and newspapers in Canada and in England fa vourable to the French Canadians, executed no doubt, with a view to influence public meerings. A long article which appeared in the Leeds Afercury which reached town on Monday last, is already printed in a handy form as a pamphlet. One of the most moderate and influential of our provincial journals then states— " We need not inform our readers that we supported the resolutions proposed by Ministers in the early part of the pre sent year, refusing the demands of tho Cauadian House of Assembly for such a change in their Constitution aswould have clearly amounted to independence; and authorising the Go vernment to take out of the Canadian Exchequer the sums requisite to pay the judicial and other officers of Go vernment, from whom the House of Assembly bad with held their salaries for more than three years. Whether we were right or wrong in supporting this course is of little consequence. If wrong, we should not hesitate for a moment to acknowledge it. We acted under the im- 1 pression that the demand of an elective Council (or Upper House of Legislature) in Canada was a disguised demand of independence ; that it would have deprived her Majesty of all real support in that country ; and we thought then, and think still, that it would be far better to release the Canadians en tirely from our dominion, than to keep the name and the ex pense of sovereignty without the substance. But as inde pendence was not then asked for, we thought the demand of an elective Council fraudulent, and that it ought to be re timed. That resistance, however, and the seizing of the public revenues of the Canadians without the sanction of the House of Assembly (which sanction is required by the Cana dian Constitution given by Parliament in 1791), have led the people of Lower Canada to take up arms, and to fight openly for independence, as the only safeguard of their liberties. Thus the question is changed —the mask is dropped. The Canadians now demand openly what before they demanded only in disguise ; and the question is put fairly and broadly before th e B r i t i s h Parliament and people—shall Great Bri tain consent to the independence of Canada? To this ques tion we are not prepared to give a negative. We doubt the right of England to coerce the Canadians. We doubt her power to do it. We more than doubt the advantage of hold ing Canada under military subjugation." As far as we can understand the responsibility of jour nalism, from this specimen of it, we should say it is exceed ingly light. First, the French Canadians seek a certain object by fraud—Ministers are encouraged to resist that fraud—'ilinisterial resistance affords a pretext for open violence—and this show of violence settles the question. " The Tenth never dance." Let it be known that at the Erst show of violence the arms drop from the grasp of 'England. But, with all due submission to the writer in the Leeds Mercury, is there not such a thing as implied faith to the men in Lower Canada, who, trusting to the resolutions of which you approved, have rallied round those who represent the English Government ? The property of those men has been placed in jeopardy by the aid they have already afforded to the parent State. Already that property has been offered to the offscourings of the United States, as an inducement to their taking the field with the French Canadians against the British. Did not Sir Wil liam Molesworth announce in the House of Commons that the Anne:icon rifLmcu would be paid by the fat meadows of Beaubarnais, the estate of Mr. E. Ellice? We have no wish to hold the Canadians in subjection to this country by military force. But we have an unconquerable objection to conveying British subjects from their native homes, and in ducing them, by grants of lands, to settle in Canada ; to giving those British subjects the assuranee that they would be protected against their French neighbours, who from the first objected to the mode by which they were settled amongst them ; to inviting these subjects to take arms in i support of British authority—and on the first attempt of the French to shake off the authority of Britain, to leaving these British subjects to the tender mercies of those to whom they have given cause of deadly offence. Is it to be understood that British faith and British honour are but a name ?—that they impose no restraint on promises, but that the moment those avho rely on such promises are thereby involved in danger we turn round and laugh at them, and exclaim. We did nut think you were such fools as to , get into a scr a p e on our account, but help yourselves the best wee; you can. Morality must have changed with other things of late ; for we remember the time when it would have been deemed disgraceful to play the parf now enoily recommended by some o f the most influential of Eng lish journals. We once heard a German gentleman, who had travelled in Greece, tell an anecdote of the modern Greeks, which would prove (if we bre to take the Leeds Mercury as a correct expounder of English notions) that there is some resemblance between them and the modern Britons. The Philhellenes, who, under General Neaperg, took the field with the Greeks, were invited to join the Greek army, and Oppose the Turks on a field favourable f or res i s'-dnce. It was agreed that the fight should be obstinate ; but the honest Germans found that they were :to sooner engaged than the Greeks took to th e i r heels,' eav i ng t h em in the lurch. The Philhellenes were cut to pieces, with the exception of a mere handful. And she Greeks utieil to laugh immoderately at the simplicity of the Germans, observing, We really did not think that they tad ;leen such fools as to remain to be cut to pieces. The sviglith, we suppose, in like manner, will comfort their British brethren in Canada by telling them, should they be tubbed and plundered by their neighbours, they did not think they had been such arrant fools as to place any reli ance on British assurances. We wish it to be impressed on the men who attend the meeting this day—that whether colonial government be in the abstract good or bad, the French Canadians have no substantial grievances to complain of—that the aggrieved party are the people of England, who pay the expense of governing and defending the country—that the colony is in an anomalous state—the French majority being ignorant and prejudiced almost beyond exception, while the British minority engross all the trade and shipping, and are im measurably superior to the other in enterprise and intelli gence—that the use the French Canadians, under the guidasica of Arne dozen or two of advocates and not ar i es , would wake of their liberty would be to give effect to the most illiberal and narrow views—that knowing this the Bri tish minority will never submit to become the slaves of men only fit for hewers of wood and drawers of water—and that if the British Government were to withdraw its troops and say, we wash our bands of Canadians, a civil war of the most sanguinary nature would be the result. To the men of peace, who would leave the Canadians to them , sOves, we would say, you arc only adding tJ the sanguinary character of the strife. At Vi-esent the war may be easily put down, and Means may be taken for placing the two provinr‘e's In such a condition as would -all(?tv them with honour. At present cur abitridoninelit be dishonourable and rowardly, and Would tell e‘c4ry tAatio'n in every part Of the globe 'that the 6oVerbrilint of En ;land may always be bearded with inipunity. The nam ,- .! of Englishman would become a by-word in every land for all that is truckling and contemptible.—Moreing The letter of Mr, Arber. tt transferred from the Ministerial papers into ettt• journal of yesterday, his, doubt less, attracted general notice. Our readers will recollect that the object of that letter is to denounce Mr. Leader, the new idol of the Westminster Rump, partly for his ge neral conduct since Parliament met, but chiefly for his treasonable speech in rclertnee to the affairs of C.:n ula : and whit renders this document the more curious and pun gent, is the fact that it emanates from one of the Hon. Revolutionist's stanchest political supporters, who, knowing the unscrupulous character of the said Rump, and antici pating that their public meeting tociar will be trumpeted forth as representing the sentiments of the We•tminster constituency, proposes " that proper persons shall be placed at:the doors, having in their hands the last registration list, with instructions not to admit any person whose name is not there." " 1 am induced (says the writer) to advise this course for three very important reasons : first, that the real opiniou of the electors of Westminster may go forth to Canada; se condly, that the Working Men's Association may not pass resolutions in the name of the electors of Westminster; aed thirdly, that Mr. Leader may be inform, d of the opinion of his constituents on his late Parliamentary conduct, more par ticularly as to his last speech on the Canadian qnestion." Such are the sagacious views of this Mr. Arber, who, having heretofore been a keen and active abettor of Ra dical principles, is evidently alarmed and disgusted at the extremities to which his political associates are galloping. But the sting of his letter is in its tail, as appears from the following concluding sentence of it : " Having been Chairman of Mr. Leader's Committee twice in this parish ( St. George, Hanover-square), I may be ex cused for infirming him, that all those electors with whom I have hail the pleasure to act, have come to the resolution of using their best exertions, on the first opportunity, to prevent him, from misrepresenting Westminster." Now this announcement, whether viewed in relation to the sentiments of the Westminster constituency, or to Mr. Leader's political position, appears to us to possess consi derable interest. Taking Mr. Arber's words in the most restricted sense that can be put upon them, it appears that the entire Liberal Committee for the largest parish in West minster are so sick of their new Member, that they have determined to get quit of him with as little delay as possi ble. Of course this is a resolution which we can do no otherwise than applaud ; although we must honestly say, that if Mr. Arber and those electors with whore he acts had exercised only common circumspection four months ago, before labouring for Mr. Leader's return, they would have found that there is really nothing in his recent pro cedure which had not been unequivocally indicated by his speeches and votes in Parliament anterior to the late dis solution. In fact, when that green and shallow gentleman was pleased to set himself up in opposition, first to Sir Francis Burdett, and afterwards to Sir George Murray, we pointed out on both occasions the extreme length to I which he had advanced beyond even' the average liberalism of the day. In the first of these contests, no doubt, our warning voice was effectually listened to ; and if at the last election the Westminster constituency suffered themselves to be betrayed in Mr. Leader's favour, partly by the unprin cipled counsel of Whig journalists, but chiefly by the prostitution of Treasury influence and Royal patronage exerted through Mr. Controller Byng, they have only them selves to blame for a step the folly of which they are al ready beginning to; repent of. Nevertheless, Mr. Ardcr's letter is symptomatic of an improved state of sentiment which we would rather encourage than repress. Thet the feelings which he expresses on behalf of the numerous Committee over whom he presided are extensively con curred in by Mr. Loader's other Committees and suppor ters throughout the western city, we see no reason to doubt. They are determined, he says, to oust him on the first fa vourable opportunity. Now that same opportunity, we humbly submit, :they have it in their power to create. It is dangerous and disgraceful to have such a popinjay . perched on such an eminence. They, therefore, owe it to the country and to their own character to bring him down. In a word Mr. Arber should play the part of " Dear Mrs Pouneey," and for consistency's sake should lose no time in collecting signatures to precisely such a billet-doux as eli cited at once Sir Francis Burdett's resignation and Mr. Leader's applause. For such a patriotic effort at this im portant crisis, the Westminster Committee would not only secure the co-operation of thousands of their fellow electors, but would win the gratitude of the nation as surely and exten a sivcly as they formerly incurred public animadversion when ' they rashly yoked themselves to Mr. Lender's chariot. At all events, liameu t. B the pi u t t th t e h y e h re av vu e lt fa i l u len ca in u t a o da, ougsuhtfutrofrfuum being rnishasaa-u lutery lesson both to themselves and to similar constituen cies who have unhappily become the dupes of a contemp tible revolutionary clique. With respe c t to th e H on . Charioteer himself, if the political folly of R a di ca li sm were not transcended by its moral obliquity, w e s h ou ld cer t a i n l y say that, after the strong opinions he has exp resse d on a question affecting the integrity of the realm, he is bound in all policy and honour, especially if he attach importance to the sanction of his constituents, to accept the Chiltern Hundreds without delay, in order to afford them an oppor tunity of giving their verdict on his recent Canadian proce dure. We by no means insinuate that representatives are bound to do this on ordinary occasions, when they happen to differ in opinion with the electors who sent them to Par ordinary occasion, is happily a rare emergency, involving the sacrifice or preservation of interests, in regard to which parties differing on every. other question may fairly be presumed to agree. On that subject Mr. Leader has given utterance to opinions on which, independently of their known hostility to the views of the 2,500 West minister voters who supported S.r George Murray, a very large proportion of his own parochial agency are noto riously at variance with him. We hold, therefore, that with the liberal ideas which he professes to entertain in re gard to the servitude and dependence due from a represen tative to his constituents, he is at this moment under a moral obligation to give a practical illustration of his own principles by resigning his trust, and appealing de novo for a renewal of it. Moreover, Mr. Leader either possesses the confidence of his constituents, or he does not. If he possess their confidence, then a successful appeal to them in reference to this emergency would arm him with tenfold power in the assertion and maintenance of his revolutionary dogmas. On the other. hand, if he have lost their confi dence on so important a question as a colonial rebellion, then to retain, in spite of them the positional influence which they had invested him w ith, i s a tr eac h erous deser tion i f the very principles, the profession of which consti tuted one of the inals recommendations that induced them to return bins to Parliament. On every ground, therefore, of policy and honour, an upright gentlem in in Mr. Leader's preseist situation would feel himself pledged to resign. If he shrink from doing so, he will show that he is one of the arrantest political hypocrites in existence.—Tinres. The affairs of Canada—the questions whether that Colony has been justly or unjustly dealt with by the mo ther country—whether its people are to be subdued to a state of obedience, or whether they have not had just grounds for rebellion—are now the only matters thought of or discussed in any rssembly o f persons cap a bl e o f enter taining an opinion upon the subject. We have hesitated: for same time to declare a decided op:nion upon the mattet. —every investigation of facts into which we entered hav ing convinced us that the public was grossly ignorant of the real affair at issue, and that, in justice to our readers, we were bound to make ourselves thoroughly masters of the subject before we compromised ourselves, either upon the side of the Government, or upon that of the Canadians who have risen in insurrection and revolt against it. Act ing upon this Principle, we have perused every pam phlet, document, or other matter bearing upon the sub ject ; and after the most mature and unprejudiced view of the case, we unhesitatingly declare, that there is no ease of injury, injustice, or oppression, upon the native inhabitants of Lower Canada to justify them in having recourse to arms far the redress of the griev ances of which they complain. That the inhabitant, of Lower Canada have some, and just grounds of complaint, we have allowed in previous numbers of this journal ; but after a careful perusil of all that have been alleged, we do not find that all of them collectively would justify them in having recourse to arms. An excellent and well reasoned pamphlet is before us, entitled " A few Words on Canada," and published by Longman & Co., which would set the matter at rest in the mind of any impartial person, and which we recommend to the consideration of all who are desirous of making themselves thoroughly acquainted with the subject ; but we take no advantage of its most conclu sive statements upon the subject—we direct the atten tion of our readers, instead of it, to the following and more full exposition of the alleged grievances of the Canadians, as transmitted to us by "The Working Men's Association : The Canadians complain that nearly every beneficial law which has been passed in the People's House, has been factiously opposed by the Legislative Council; and that, therefore, no progress has been made in improving the condition of their country. They complain that all the waste land of the Colony, and all the saleable timber thereon, are disposed of for the advantage of hungry officials, and for corrupting the representation of the people, in stead of being applied to the improvement of their country. They complain that their Judges are not responsible to the people, nor can they be impeached for misconduct as English Judges can by the People's House, and that by this irresponsibility tke source of justice is poisoned, and cases of the grossest peculation and delinquency have passed unpunished. They complain that the whole administration of government is THE SUN, LONDON, TiIUtt,SDAY,_JA_NUARY_4, 1 S3f.l: . . one of favouritism and injustice—that the revenues of their countryare 'emptoyiekt •Aha srinandered away by persOns not responsible to kht ecip l ie=—lhat they are Unable to get an accUreite statement of receipts and expenditure, and, whet , 4ulitiq'tiency is detected, are re fused the power to punish or prevent it in future: . , ... They remp t talit that their Colleg,n, has bren ii4Veted iti# sol.: dici-s‘ Ilaii'aCkil, chid lit 'Ai* lin`d atkaVbed '.i 11 hi., i.teen divided biOfee'n tic offtili% t i ,tf o` - i0r.',;4...',`.',Qt: AO .nUVr t— ter bearing with these insults and oppressions for ti.taity half a century--after every effort to improve their country by wise and salutary laws has been frustrated by these nniteel aris tocratic powers, and after repeated IpDtiettior, tritt, l i rr " 3 England for reslresitt„ theig ia.%• tkiiiig'-It. nnit r nifilbtisly dee are( that. tile,4 htVe lie 44 bt kViAe laws and just government until the Le gislative Council is ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE. This reasonable request having been scorned and scouted by those in power, their House of Assembly has STOPPED THE Sur rulcs—that is, they have exercised their only constitutional power to obtain retirees. For the working men we entertain the highest respect Their judgment is generally unprejudiced, and their ob jacts, we believe, to be always far and honourable ; bet we p ot it to them wheti,er they , have not been grotnly misled in the expression of the Opinion which we have just re corded ? Whether, in their own estimation, they have not m:stakea the parent for the child, tied sanctioned a came as just and honourable for which there is no tenable ground ? Canada is not an integral part of the British Empire. It is a country subdued and surrendered —its people the subjects of Great Britain, but not participators in the privileges and rights which belong to them, and Great Britain, according to the recognised law of n ations (there being 'to treaty to the eontrary) may deal with them as she or her Administration may please. This is a point utterly forgotten, to all appearance, by the " Working Men's As sociat: on''—but on this point, and in the grievances com olsined of, rest the whole matter of justification or condetn eat ion of the rebellion. With regard to the alleged grievances there are two or three of them, such as the a ppointment of persons with unreasonable salaries, the promotion of persons not suited to their situations—which we believe to be just, and for which the Tory Government ought to be justly condemned ; but allowing for all the ignorance and all the errors committed both by Tories and Whigs, we really cannot see anything in the shape of a justification of the present revolt. Blood ought not to be shed without just cause—property is not to be endangered because a few hot-headed fanatics are desirous of appropriating it to the most unjust purposes—a section is not to dictate to a whole body of greater wealth, respectability, and judgment—the minority with just claims is not to be sacrificed to a majo rity which has neither law, principle, or precedent for its expressed design of spoliation ; and under these impressions we have no hesitation in saying, that the British Govern ment, while it shall endeavour to do away with all just grounds of complaint on the part of the Canadians, will not do its duty, if it do not protect by main force, if necessary, the rights and interests of those who have left their mother country in the hope of finding a habitation and a home in Lower Canada.—Morning Advertiser. A vast deal of virtuous indignation has beon vented in Ministerial quarters upon the subject of the meeting which has been advertised to take place to-day at the Crown and Anchor Tavern upon the subject of Canadian affairs. To this meeting, and to the probable sentiments of the ultra- Radicals, who are understood to be the promoters of it, we have objectiens, perhaps, as strong as those of any AliriS terialist, and rather more permanent. But we are of opi nion that it is due to common honesty to point out to con tempt the sudden conversion of these Ministerialists as soon as their interest prompts, though they never thought of it before. One gentleman, who proclaims himself to have been the Chairman of Mr. Leader's Election Committee, in St. George's, Hanover-square, is especially angry with reference to the anticipated anti- Ministerial meeting at the Crows and Anchor, and the part which he assumes that Mr. Leader will take at it. Perhaps this worthy Chairman may have an abstract right to be angry when ever it so pleases him ; but we may very reasonably ask him what right he has to attack now the man whom he la boured to return to Parliament but a few months ago ? Mr. Leader's sentiments respecting Canada, were as well known before the last election as any other political senti ments of that not very distinguished senator. The con servative press did not fail to warn the electors of Westminster against the principles of such a candidate for their suffrages. But these warnings were given in vain. The Ministers supported Mr. Leader, and he found no difficulty in obtaining the hearty goo d wishes of the Chairman of his Committee in St. George's Hanover-square. Mr. Leader has not n o w the support of the Ministers, and the Chairman of his Committee, actuated by a curious sympathy, is no longer his political friend. Was it then only the Go vernment that this Chairman thought of, and not the principles of the man whose election he promoted ? This may have been the case ; but if it were, this Chair man might at least think it necessary to make some apology for coming forward at the present period to throw discredit upon the politics of one whom he applauded 'and served last August. So eager is this Chairman to put himself forward on the side of the Government, and against his chosen representative, that he proposes something about a comparison of the persons attending the meeting with -the names in the Westminster poll-book. Now, we have looked over the advertisement calling this meeting, and we do not find in it one word about Westminster. Why should this Chairman suppose that he specially has any concern in al luding to it, and bringing a Westminster poll-book to test the metropolitanism of those wlio attend ? The reason we apprehend to be this—he made himself prominent in the election of a Member for Westminster, because he thought that to uphold Radicalism would please the Government ; —he now wishes to make himself prominent in decrying that Member, because he thinks that to oppose Radicalism will please the Government. Such is the virtue of our pa triots! Another gentleman we find writing from the Re form Club, and apparently pluming himself very much upon Conservative sentiments, such as it has been tho occupation of the Reform Club hitherto to discourage. He says— " This Canada agitation, however, may not be without its use. It will test the difference between Reformers and De structives, and it is high time that the line were decidedly marked. Practical reform has greatly suffered by the revolu tionary schemes of reckless political adventurers. The dema gogues who would abet the French revolutionists against their own countrymen, would delight in throwing their native country into a state of revolt, if they could do it with safety to themselves. Every true Patriot and good Rcfarmer ought to raise his voice rgainst these false brethren." Who would suppose that this blame of " destructives" —this warning against " demagogues"—this reproof of " revolutionary schemes" and " political adventures" came from a member of that party to which Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Hume, &c., belong. It is a stretch of impudence laughable almost from its extravagance, and they who have been preaching up hatred and contempt of all established in stitutions up to that point at which inconvenience to them selves begins should all at once assume the language of Con servatism and lecture with great gravity against the very faults which they themselves practised and encouraged in others. The usefulnessof making adistinctionbetween Reformersand Destructives is nothing new to the readers of this Journal. Ministerialists now say that it is high time tile line of this distinction were decidedly marked. We said some time ago that the time had come for such a distinction, and we have acted upon it without waiting for the Ministerial favour towards such a distinction. It is painful to w itness the servility of those who call themselves friends of liberty, but who show by their conduct that they are friends only of their own interest with the Treasury Benches. We trust that the public will derive a useful lesson from the newly-found Conservatism of the late promoters of revo lutionary principles. They ought thence to learn that these political teachers are consistent but in one thing, and that is devotedness to what they suppose to be their own personal interest.—Morning Herald. During the intervals which separate the successive ar rivals of intelligence from Canada it can excite no sur prise that, in the absence of new facts, the spirit of specu lation which recent occurrences have excited should he both active and intrepid in reference to the future condition and Government of that Colony, as well as to certain objects, apart from the immediate affairs of Canada, to which the approaching development and accumulation of British power in that quarter of the world may be eventually ap plied. Perhaps we should do no injustice to eithe r of these classes of speculations by the remark, that they sometimes display activity and boldness at the expense of sobri ety an d discretion. To the latter class, however, the r emar k i s peculiarly applicable. It will certainly be tim e enough to inquire what is to be the second object of the augmented military force which Great Britain will have at her dis posal in North America in the spring when the first object of that armament shall have been su ccess f u ll y accomplished. To do justice to the present Govern ment of Great Britain, and particularly to that depart silent of it which has the Colonies under its especial c are , it is not likely to incur the reproach , or to inspire the jea lousy to which it might be subject. if it were sup pose d ca pable of sympathising with the busy imaginings, th e far sighted projects, the accumulation of enterpri se upon en terprise, in which some of our Journals permit them se l ves to indulge. We own it seems to us that our rebel sub jects in Canada may be expected to give us enough to do for the present, without that powerful assistance which the mere suggestion of any object, on the port of ou r Govern ment, beyond that of reducing them to subjection, would be calculated to provide for them. We do not desire to be more explicit upon this subject, than ri?eis t ly to ex press our persuasion, that there is not a single British Statesman, of any party, who regards tile settlement of any subsisting question between this country, an d t h e United States as capable of being influenced in the slightest degree by the display of military power in Canada, the object and intentions of which are strictly con fined to the maintenance of the lawful and beneficial autho rity of Great Britain in that colony. The future policy o f the British Government, in reference to the internal Affairs of the 'Canna - is; W i wi- the of eial siippreissien ot die revolt, offers, howe'ver, a leas haiaid)us• as a More legiti mate, and useful, Leld of inggestipti and. conjecture than that to which sv'e aVo lust i•efeiie4: it is were getteral4 `.e1 1 4 'that great injustice will be innicted upon the peoPle cf Great Britain, upon whom has been cast, most unjustly and wantonly, the coss of an extensive armament—and that still more grievous and intolerable injustice will be endured by the !qui Canadian atibjects of Great Ofit c litt i tale rl rf 8 thin^ tie ful ifilusirk has been interrupted, the peace and security if tvlictsb lintnbs have been itotoded, w ithout the shadew of just or reasonable cause—lf the representatives or nominees 0f the habitant should ever again he permitted to resume that ascendancy in the popular branch of the Legislature of Lower Canada to which the present insurrection may be disinetly traced. It would have been wise and just on the past of the British Goveinment, from the moment when a majority of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada ex pressed its discontent with the Constitution which the Government of Great, Britain had granted to the colony, to revoke the grant altogether, to have uniert,ken the duty of framing a new Constitution for the colony, and in the execution of this duty to have taken especial care that the active, prosperous, loyal, and constantly increasing body of British settlers should have ample means of infusing into the Provincial Legislature a just regard for, and a proper sym [ pathy with, an it character, interests, and feelings, and that 1 the monopoly of seats in the House of Assembly which the French peasantry had acquired, should be extinguished at once and for ever. And what would have been wise and just then, is now become a matter of the clearest, strictest, most imperative necessity. Differences of opinion may exist as to the most eligible method of accomplishing this object ; but among the lovers of justice and the advo cates and promoters of loyalty, there can be no difference of opinion as to its justice and necessity. It may be effected by an amalgamation of the Legislature and Government of the Upper and Lower Provinces, combined with some slight alteration of the elective franchise. Or it may be effected by a more extensive change of the elective franchisein the Lower Province exclusively, by withdrawing the right of voting alto gether from the feudal and servile tenures, by which the habi tans generally bold their land. Or, thirdly, it may, we fear, be effected by comprehending, in one act of personal disfranchisement, the voters of French descent who are implicated by act, or by misprision, in the present revolt. In whichever of these, or in whatever other manner, this important object is attained is of less importance, so that it be securely achieved. This is due to justice and to loyalty. Without it the suppression of the present insurrection will be of little use, since the present will in this case be only the first of a series of insurrections, producing the ruin of the colony, and ending in its loss. To the justice and ex pediency of depriving the hobnails of Lower Canada of the political power included in the elective franchise those libe ral persons, with Lord Gosford at their head, who deem the hobnails who have been engaged in rebellion entitled to mercy, on the ground that they have been deluded into that crime, cannot be heard to object. Men so ignorant of their social duties as to have been misled into the crime of trea son can hardly be deemed fit for the beneficial exercise of political power.—. Morning Post. 1 ' colitieM,g tl the ,basket. The little fellow's cries for the loss he sustained attrr.etcd atieni:L;li, bil the prisoners were pursued, and soon afterwards taken into custody. On the CIIAIRMIN asking the prisoners what theil fine to Rayin de fence ? Fasey,,wl'o was Fpokeslnan, said—Your Worship, the be;' tt.lls a pluinHi ;A4)4; Oita they! sprats. The truth is this here. As I and my brother sweeps was going ilien6 i khtks up against a bag of cinders, and by mere accident doused the candle, and IbA was the way as it was done. As fur tacking them there sprats, we are all as Pinn,.cut. as the child unborn. We are known to all the gentlefolks in Ricli mom!, find ttcr4M hare called some on them forward to speak in our behalf, but the pilee is, So fAi ofr, Ifni Y.e. was dolicate in le'ting them ktioW that We was siaspeet . d of such a thing as titishele, CliAisisul.it.::. , AS yoti have asserted that you have numerotit frends who can give you a ciiafati!O, sire they now present to say anything about you ? Fasey (looking round the Court)—No, I see none of the Richmond people here ; but you may take my il'Or,l for the excellence of our characters up to the present time.—(l,aughter. Thq prisoner then, alluding to the youth of the prirelpal witness against thein Fii,l, " Another thing as I wish to himpr, ss on the minds of . the Court and Jury is this bete, a:id that is, this little boy, who is not more than eight er nine }'Cart of age, can't be expecteJ to know the nature of a hoatli, and how, then, can hatiotsralde gentlenien pie sent return a verdict of guilty upon such evidenc.? ?" This pris .ner, after going on in this strain for some time, concluded by soying, "',lto and my fellows, therefore, throw ourselves upon the mercy of th,: Court." The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, and they were each sentenced tOsix months imprisonment and hard labour. - - - POLICE INTELLIGENCE• ~..~~•-- HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Alfred Warren, a young matt, was brought before • Mr, ROGERS, in custody of G. Collier, an active officer of the E division, charged with having stolen a valuable diamond ring. the property 01 Mr. Waller, jeweller, of Ludgate-bill. Mr. ROGERS inquired whether the prosecutor was in attendance? Collier replied in the negative, and said that he had merely brought the prisoner to this office as he had not the opportunity of taking him to Guildhall, the robbery having been committed in the city. Mr. ROGERA ordered that he should be remanded to the Compter, preparatory to being taken before the sitting Alderman this day. A young man named Dominick Desonge was summoned before Mr ROORRS, to answer to the complaint of a poor man who appeared at the office with his head bound up and apparently suffering great pain. It appeared that a:the complainant was proceeding homewards last night with a basket of linen, he was knocked down by a horse and cart which the def:indant was driving, and remained lying in the street for some time insensible, until a policem::n came up, who took the com plainant to a surgeon's. A bundle of dirty linen was at the time stolen from the complainant's basket of the value of 3/ 10s., which the poor fellow stated he should have to make good. The defendant was tined in the penalty of 405., and ordered to pay the complainant 103. damages. Mr. Rouaas told the complainant he could bring an action against the owner of the horse and cart, (the defendant's master) for the 'value I of the linen. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. A young Irishwoman was yesterday brought before Mr. DYER, on a charge of disorderly conduct. It turned out, however, that she had previously left her infant-child at a public-house with its father, who, in his turn, left his offspring in the house, the landlord of which hu manely gave it shelter for the nsght. After having been suitably admo nished with regard to the offence she had committed in deserting her child, the baby was given to her, and she was discharged. Soon after this the relieving officer of the Strand Union caused the girl again to be brought to the office in order to hear the charge of desertion once more brought forward. The relieving officer said his instructions from the Strand Union Board of Guardians were to deal rigorously with all cases of desertion towards the mothers. There had been a clear case of desertion made out against the defendant, and he appeared to press for her commitment to prison. Mr. DYER said the application placed him in some difficulty, as he hd already heard and decided the charge. On receiving a kind of promise from the young w oman that she would not repeat her conduct he had released her. The relieving officer said he had been given to understand that it was the intention of the young woman to do again as she had already done. Now this course was likely to saddle the Union with the child, and all the expense of rearing and providing for it. This was no joke, and therefore it was necessary to deter the defendant from putting her threat into execution. Mr. MAIa said he had no desire to inflict punishment, but he should be obliged to send her to prison if she was brought before him on a similar charge. All the parties then left the office. W OR SHIP- S TREET. Yesterday Mr. Robert Passinghaat, gas-fitter, High-street, Bethnal green-road, finally appeared, on a charge of defrauding the Metropolitan Gas Company. It is known that for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity of gas consumed a metre is fi equently provided. The prisoner had contrived a pipe which communicated with the outside pipe before it entered the gas meter. Information was obtained by the Company, when they in stituted prcceedings against him, and it being fully proved, thedefendant was fined in the mitigated penalty of 251. to the Queen, and 231. to be paid to the Company. The fine to the Queen was paid instanter, and the Company consented to receive the amount of penalty to be received from the defendant by instalments. UNION-HALL. AIe.AILTINO POLICE.—Janus Xdt.9drdS, A cow-keeper, was brought this morning before Mr. TRAILL, charged by police constable 115 It with having assaulted him while in the discharge of his duty. From the statement of the complainant, it appeared that he was on duty in St. George's-fields last night. About half-past ten o'clock he heard a considerable disturbance in that neighbourhood; upon his going to see what was the cause he discovered the prisoner, who was in liquor, quarrelling with several persons who were round him. Upon the complainant desiring them to disperse he was immediately collared by the prisoner and thrown down several times, and another policeman who came to the assistance of the complainant had his coat torn nearly off his back. The prisoner upon being asked to account for his conduct, expressed his sorrow for what he had done, attributing it to too free an indulgence at the shrine of the Jolly god. Mr Taktu, ordered him to pay 18s. for the (latrine he had occa. eioned to the dress of the policeman, and in default to be committed for fourteen days. Joseph ltfouls was committed for trial, charged with having stolen a large quantity of carpeting, the property of a broker named Sa•eetman, carrying on business in Bolingbroke-row, Walworth. It appeared from the statement of policeman, 185 P that he observed the prisoner in company with another person in the Walworth-road List night, between seven and I ight o'clock. They were carrying a large quantity of carpeting, and witness thinking all was not right, went up to them and asked how they had become possessed of the property they had got. Upon this one of the men threw down the bundle he was carrying, and ran off. Witness then collared the prisoner, who knocked witness down and ran oft' too. Ultimately, however, he was secured at the house of a man named Woodcock, and brought to this otlice. An order was received on Tuesday at the Brigti. Post-office directing the reduction to 2d. of all postages to Le hereafter charged on letters conveyed by the Post-office to dis tances not exceeding eight miles. The towns benefitted in this district in their communications with Brighton will be Lewes and Shoreham. MR WELLER'S OPINION OF THE LADIES.— " That young person," said Mr. Pickwick, " is attached to your son." "To Samivel Veller I" exclaimed the parent. " Yes," said Mr. Pickwick, " It's nat'ral," said Mr. Weller, after some consideration, " nat'ral, but rayther alarmin„ Sammy must 1)2 careful." "'low do you mean ?" inquired Mr. Pickwick. " Werry careful that he don't say nothin' to to her," responded Mr. Weiler. " Werry careful that he ain't led avay in a innocent moment to say anythin' as may lead to a conwiction for breach. You're never safe vith 'em, Mr. Pickwick ; ven they 'fence has designs on you, there's no knowiu' Vera to have 'em, and vile you're considering of it they have you. 1 wos married fust, that vay myself, Sir, and Sammy wos the consekens o' the maneuver."—Pickwick for November. A HERO'S DETERMINATION.—" It iS not won derful that, on quitting India, his professional pre,pects over cast, and his body broken down by disease, Nelson's spirits should have been exceedingly depressed, and his miad sunk in gloom. Lon; afterwards, he described his feelings at this time in the following' terms. I was impressed,' he said, with a feeling that I should never rise in my profession. My mind was staggered, on considering the difficulties I had to struggle with and the little interest I possessed. I could not perceive any means of attaining the object of my ambition. After a long and gloomy reverie, in which I almost wished myself overboard, a sudden glow of patriotism kindled within me at the thought which presented my King and country as my patron. \Veil, then,' I exclaimed, I will be a hero I Putting my trust in Providence, I will brave every danger l' From that time, he often said, a brilliant orb was suspended before his mind's eye, which led him onward to renown. Though lie well knew that his dejection was attributable only to ill health and low spirits, yet he always cherished the idea that the succeeding radiance was prophetic of glory, and that the light which led him on was a light from heaven. —Naval Keepsake for 1838, containing a new Life of Nelson by the 01 Sailor. PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—On Saturday last, a reside! of the town of Brighton, a person between 40 and 50 years of age, undertook, for the purpose of deciding a trifling wager, to start from St. James's-street, near the Steins, to go to the race stand and back in '25 minutes, to pass through Upper St. James's-street, by the City of ilereford public-house, and along the new wall, a distance of nearly three miles. Betting was even against half an hour; but the bet was decided in 22i. minutes. The whole distance from ths; Stehle is a coetinuai and rapid rise, par titularly withiu halt' a mile of the stand, and when the state of the soil is considered at this period of the year, this effort may be ranked as one of no mean pretension. The first ordinary meeting of the Entomological So ciety for the season was held on Monday evening, Mr. J. F. Stephens, president, in the chair. Mr. Elope exhibited a large collection of insects from the East Indies, including several undescribed varieties, and Mr. Raddor, some specimens of Cayenne pepper, attacked by a species of anobium, as well as somepeat taken up from a depth of 50 feet below the surface, on which was a small substance sesetnbling the elytra of in sects. Mr. Shipstcr exhibited a spider's nest from South Australia, belonging to the mygaim or trap-door genus, which differed from others previously described in the trap being se micircular, and not turned back entirely, but returning as it' by a spring. Mr. ipence described a plan which had been successfully adopted in the West of England for the destruc tion of wire-worms, which had greatly infested the turnip fields. For this purpose he employed boys for picking them up at the rate of lid. per 100, and who, in the course of a few days, obtained upwards of 11 000, the expense of clearing one acre being about 1/. 2s. 6d. A paper was read from Mr. Westwood, descriptive of a hybrid sphynx, and another from Mi. Newport, on the use of the antennae of insects; after which the meeting adjourned. An extra times Bedford coach, travelling from London with four post-horses, on Saturday last, heavily laden, was overturned not far from the Baldfaced Stag, at Finchley, owing to the wheel box running against the edge of one of the large granite stones which are so often placid on that road in dangerous positions, for the purpose of forcing the traffic on the new made road. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt except the conductor. But surely the Trustees of the Metro politan Board should be called upon to avoid endangering the lives of the public, by going to the trilling expense of pro riding wooden guards For those parts of the road which they , think it necessary to defend.—Bedford Beacon. LAW SITTU4GS. COURT OF CHANCERY, WESTMINSTER. Sittings appointed by the Lord Chancellor during Hilary Tenn. —Thursday, Jan. 11, Appeal Motions and Appeals; Friday, Jan. 12, Petitions ; Saturday, Jan. 13, Monday, Jan. 15, Tuesday, Jan. 16, and Wednesday, Jan. 17, Appeals and and Causes ; Thursday, Jan. 18, Appeal Motions, Appeals, and Causes ; Friday, Jan. 19, Saturday, Jan. 20, Monday, Jan. 22, Tuesday, Jan. 23, and Wednesday, Jan. 24, Appeals and Causes ; Thursday, Jan. 25, Appeal Motions, Appeals, and Causes ; Friday, Jan. 26, Saturday, Jan. 27, Monday, Jan. 29, and Tuesday, Jan. 30, Appeals and Causes ; Wed nesday, Jan. 31, Appeal Motions, Appeals, and Causes. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, WesrmiNTrEß. Sittings appointed by the VICE-CHANCELLOR. during Hilary Term. Thursday, Jan. 11, Motions ; Friday, Jan. 12, Petitions ; Saturday, Jan. 13, Monday, Jan. 15, Tuesday, Jan. 16, and Wednesday, Jan. 17, Pleas, Demurrers, Exceptions, Causes, and Further Directions : Thursday, Jan. 18, Motions; Friday. Jan. 19, Saturday , J an. 20, Monday, Jan. 22, Tuesday, Jan. 23, and Wednesday, Jan. 24, Pleas, Demurrers, Exceptions Causes, and Farther Directions ; Thursday, Jan. 25, Mo tions ; Friday, Jan. 26, Saturday, Jan. 27, Monday, Jan. 2e, and Tuesday, Jan. 30, Pleas, Demurrers, Exceptions, Causes, and Further Directions ; Wednesday, Jan. 31, Motions. On every Friday the VICE-CHANCELLOR. will hear Short Causes and Unopposed Petitions previous to the general Paper. • ROLLS' COURT, WESTMINSTER. Sittings appointed by tho MasTga of the RoLt.s during Hilary Term : Thursday, Jan. 11, Motions ; Friday, Jan. 12, Petitions in the General Paper ; Saturday, Jan. 13, Monday, Jan. 15, Tuesday, Jan. 16, and Wednesday, Jan. 17, Pleas, Demur rers, Causes, Further Directions, and Exceptions ; Thursday, Jan. 18, Motions ; Friday, Jan. 19, Saturday, Jan. 20, Mon day, Jan. 22, Tuesday, Jan. 23, and Wednesday, Jan. 24, Pleas, Demurrers, Causes, Further Directions, and Excep tions; Thursday, Jan. 25, Motions ; Friday, Jan. 20, Satur day, Jan. 27, and Monday, Jan. 29, Pleas, Demurrers, Causes, Further Directions, and Exceptions ; Tuesday, Jan. $O, Pe titions to the General Paper ; Wednesday, Jan. 31, Motions ; Thursday, Feb. 1 (at The Rolls), Short Causes after swearing in the Solicitors. Causes, Further Directions, and Petitions every Tuesday at the sitting of the Court. CRIMINAL COURT-(WEDNESDAY OLD COURT. Richard King, aged 20, Peter Williamson, aged 19, Cheeks Steel, aged 22, Joshua Ilsitchinsos, aged 21, and George Clarke, aged 20, were indicted for assaulting James Stent on the Queen's highway, and steal. ing five shillings, the property of the prosecutor. The Jury, after hearing evidence, returned a ♦erdict of Guilty against Steel, Williamson, and Clark, and one of Acquittal as regarded King and Hutchinson. Mr. Baron ALDERSON told them that they might expect to be sent out of the country for a length of time. Thomas Smoker, aged 34, was indicted for killing and slaying Charles Regan. Thu I.,:arned JUDO@ having summed up the evidence, the Jury re turned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was discharged. NEW COURT. Jane Green, aged (SI, was indicted for stealing on Christmas Eve six pairs of boots and other articles, the property of Henry Cass. A se cond indictment charged her with haring been tried and convicted in this Court in October last, when she was sentenced to a month's im prisonment. The prisoner's defence was that she picked up the bundle on the stairs. She was found Guilty upon both charges. The COMMON Static:RANT inquired of the aged prisoner why it was that she made her appearance again so soon ? She replied that when she came out of prison she went to the officers of Marytebone parish, who refused to give her shelter or relief, because she had not slept in their parish. The Commom Saar:awr said this was too bad. He really did not knew what poor creatures were to do ; this ho knew, that the gaols would soon be converted into workhouses unless something was done. Some of the gentlemen of the bar, as well as of the jury, coincided in time remarks of the Learned Judge. Peter Bradley, described as the conductor of an omnibus, was in_ dieted for stealing a silk handkerchief from the person of Mr. Braith waite, the engineer. The prosecutor stated, that at midnight on the 21st of December, he got Into into one of Cowderoy's omnibuses, to go from Oxford-street to Paddington. The prisoner was on the step, acting as the conductor, and the door being ajar the prisoner gradually pulled the handkerchief through the aperture between the door and the back panel. He let him rope enough until it was all drawn through, weer he jumped out, and gave him into the custody of a policeman. The prisoner denied that he acted as conductor, and made known that Mr. Phillips was retain - 4 to defend him. Mr. Phillips now entered the Court. The Combs()); SERGEANT said he would read the evidence of the prose. cutor, who was then subjected to a crw.examination The proseutor would not swear that he got into the omnibus in Oxford.street, or in Holborn, or Snow-hill. Ile hat dined that evening at the Guildhall Cogre-hou,o, and was quite sober. John Anderson, the policeman into whose eustody the prisoner was g iven, stated that the prisoner observed to him that the door might, by closing, have drawn the handkerchief out of the prosecutor's pocket. In a nswer to a question from Mr. Putwre, he said the prosecutor was per fectly sober. Mr. PHILLIPA said that would be a question for the Jury. He would not chnrge the gentleman with an attempt at perjury, but he submitted that he could not have known what had passed with such an imperfect recollection. The prisoner said he picked up the handkerchief from the s tep when the prosecutor goi out. Mr. Cowderoy and several respectable persons gave the prisoner a most excellent character. The jury did not require the evidence to be read, as they had made up their minds to return a verdict of acquittal. The Commost SERJEANT said that for once the ends of justice had bCe ❑ effected by the Prisoners' Counsel Bill, by which it was often frustrated. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS Trig lIANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUII.—Mr. Ham. reported to the Court that the visiting justices of the county Lunatic Asylum had arertised for the loan of 3,000/., to defray the expense of erecting additional building' and works, In pursuance of a former resolution of that Court, s uch loan to be advanced on the security of the county rates ; and they had since received several tenders, of which they had aceepted the two following, viz., Mr. W. S. Jones, of Berkley-square, who offered to lend t he sum of 4,000/, at 4/. 17s. Gd. per cent. per annum, and Mr. Richard Morland, of Old-street, who agreed to lend the remaining 1,0001., at sj. I s. per Bent. per annum interest. He moved that the tender of the above patties be accepted, and that the necessary deeds, bonds, &c. be ex ecuted. The motion was carried, and the deeds mortgaging the county rate for repayment of the money executed by the chairman, Sir John %Va liant', and another magistrate. Several prisoners were discharged by proclamation; and the business o f the sessions having been gone through the Court adjourned. SURREY SESSIONS. Yesterday Wm. Williams, John Fusty, and Frederick Rowls, three chimney-sweepers, were indicted for stealing three pennyworth of sprats from a little boy at Richmond. The boy had been sent out by his father, an old man in ♦ery indigent circumstances, to " turn a penny," at he called it, by the sale of a few sprats. The boy took up his stand at the door of a house at Richmond, and being night lie had a lightest candle stuck in the middle of the fish, to exhibit the article to his customers. While he was thus em ployed the three prisoners went up to the basket, and having, as it was described, " doused the glim" (extinguished the candle), then made A grab at the sprats," and succeeded in carrying off nearly the whole GREECE ArnEN', , , DEC- 13, 1537.—1 t may now be safely asserted that British it.fluence is at an end in Greece, and that the Government is entirely led by the rouncils ef Russia, Austria, and Bltvafia, Even Otho himself has forgotten the debt he owes to Great Britain, and turns a deaf ear to the representa tions of our Minister. The Greeks, seeing that the Usiglio affair ended in smoke —that cur gallant Admiral, Sir R. Stop fora, Was treated with contumely and marked incivility, for which no clutsliaement has been inflicted—that numerous in stances of out age committed against British and loni , ln sub ject; lt , ve been unpunished, in spite of the representations of Sir Edmund Lyons—have quitted here, and have made their peace with the Court. The most notable of these are the ve teran A. /aunts, Mangernis, and B. Rufo, the first and last siezners of the set of independence of 1821, and hitherto eaurch friends of England. Their adhesion to the Court has eneled Rtuthaq to pass through the Council of State a law for restrainii , g the liberty of the press, conferring on all pre fects the power of suppressing a newspaper when and for what he chooses to designate dangerous language. Another law for permitting the 13-‘varian 'leeches to remain longer in the country, and thus establish absolutism in Greece. The Minister of the Interior has been changed, and M. Gla rakys, a physician, who knows a little German, and who is a tool of Russia, has got the portfolio of that department. The finances are in a most deplorable way. The arrears of revenue to collect from 1833 to 1836 twe upwards of ten mil lions of francs, and the expenditure exceeds the revenue by . . four millions cf francs. The interest of the alliance loan is , n ot yet at all provided for , a nd not a word is said about the - loans of 1824-25. The only thing that keeps the present Government from be ing overturned is the reluctance which the Greeks feel to see anarchy again desolate their country. They have begun to plant, to build.—and so long as peace i 3 main t ained, they aro not disposed to overthrow the government which allows them to reap quietly the fruit of their labour. I believe the British Minister wishes to secure them the benefits of a Constitution, but he has to contend openly with the King, with all the northern powers, with Bavaria, and covertly with France ; for I can never believe M. Lagoene sincere in his support of any , thing the British Minister does. —Morning Herald. -- - GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. PEAS, sort some early White Warwicks. Sow Cucumber Seed in pots, and place them in a tempo rary hot-bed, prepare other beds for reception of the plants. The open weather keeps everything in a growing state, and it is easier cut by the host. Keep a sharp look out for all those that require protection. Kitchell Gardens generally as last week, unless frost inter fere, which will stop most of the operations. GREENIIOUIE and Conservatory management continues the same, but care must be taken to guard against frost, though fires are not advisable even of nights if no frost occurs. Watching is necessary. • STOVE, the same as last week. Bring in successions of flowers for forcing, American plants, Hyacinths, Pinks, Ere. ORCIIIDIOUS PLANTS should be by no means kept growing- hard, the- ,uire rest like other plants. y req, ENTISTS IN FRANCE. —Many complaints having been made to the maistratca of the great and dangerous faci lities with which medical persons proposing to practice merely as dentists were allowed to pass their preliminary examina tions, the minister of public instruction has addressed a cir cular to the juries of medical examiners, in which he apprises them that the law upon that subject prescrie , but ne mode of examination for all o fficers of health ; riotadmitted of no distinctions, nor did it allow of any dispensation of inquiry into :the fitness of candidates, though they might propose stet to confine themselves to any p articular departmeut. The mini then directs that in future all candidates for diploma, or for any medical or surgical practice, shall be tried by three tests :-1. their knowledge of anatomy ; 2. of the elements of medicine ; and, lastly, their acquaintance with surgery and pharmacy. This examination will prevent many quacks from imposing upon the public. RELATIVE HEIGHT OF THE CASPIAN AND BLACK SEA.—The trigonometrical survey of the country situ ated between these seas, undertaken by order of the present Emperor of liussia, has now been completed. Several inte resting results derived from this survey have been communi cated in a letter lately addressed by the celebrated astronomer Struve, of the University of Dorpat to M. Von Humboldt. Among other disputed points which the engineers engaged on this work have established, is the relative height of the Cas pian and Black Sea. They have ascertained that the Caspian lies 101 Russian feet (24 French feet) below the level of the Black Sea. A full report is shortly to be published in the " Bulletin Scientifique " of the St. Petersburgh Academy. The cries of the hare when in the power of ntan or dogs are piteous, resembling those of an infant child in dis tress : but the fox dies in silence, like the boxers of old, and like the sheep—a circumst ance noticed by Homer, at the funeral feast of Patroclus. In the numerous deaths of these animals, indeed, which I have witnessed in my time, I hare never heard the sound of their voice, or a complaint, although, as may be supposed, they defend themselves with their teeth in their struggles, and, when at bay, open their mouths wide, making a faint noise, resembling a child breathing on plate glass to enable it to write its name in the steam. The same may be said of the wild boar. I never killed more than one one of those animals, but he uttered no ere as I ran my sword through his body, in the w oods of Count Hahn, in Germany. —Nimrod. . Mr. JUSTICE PARK.--He attaches infinite itnpor- his tance to everything in whi ch he is engaged. He throe.'s whole soul into the case he is called on to decide, no matter of how little interest that case may be. He seems to fore get that there is anything else in the world going on at the time, and be acts as if the eyes, not only of the whole court, but of all mankind were upon him, and the decision be is about to give. It is the fault of certain Judges, that they look on some of the matters which come before them through a mental glees of a greatly diminishing power. That is a sin which cannot be laid to the charge of Mr. Justice Park. Ho looks at everything in which he is himself, as Jude, engaged, through a glass of prodigiously magnifying capabilities. I like to see him preside on the bench. As lie never gets languid himself, so he will nor allow the counsel, or anybody else, if he can help it, to administer to their slumbering propensities. He is always making some remark, or asking some question, in the course of the proceedings, which admonishes the coun sel engaged in the case, that they must he all attention, and which tend to keep up the interest of others. Then he makes those observations, and asks those questions, with his own pe culiar animation of manner. He has an unconquerable horror of seeing persons sleeping in Court. A snore from any one of the gentlemen of the Bar is a positive calamity to him. He would almost as soon hear the war-whoop of an Indian, always providing he were himself beyond the reach of dagger. --The Bench and the 8ur,1,1l the Author of " Random _Recollections." A DU LTERATION OF BREAD. Mr. Clark, the operator at Apothecaries' Hall, has been engaged for many years by the direction of the Lords of the Admiralty, in ana lyzing 1,467 sacks of flour, which were lying in warehouses at Hull. He tork samples from each sack, and in some he found that upwards of a third was plaster of Paris and ground bones, two of the most abominable ingredients, and which the stomach of neither man nor beast is capable of digesting. He sent spe cimens of this stuff baked, in many of its proceses, to the Lords of the Admiralty. The person who owned it, and who was about to send it to Spain or Portugal, was fined in the pe nalty of 10,000/. Mr. Clark has also analysed some Soueliong tea, and found there was 25 per cent of lead ore in it. DISCOVERY IN 'FIJI!. ART OF PRINTING.—The Athenreum of lest week says, " We have just heard from Scot land of a discovery made by Mr. Ambrose Blacklock, surgeon, of Dumfries, of a cheap and easy method of transferring and reprinting books, engravings , and lithographs. The It impor -1 tance of such a discovery we need rot dwell on. e wel known that with paper newly printed the impression may I:o transferred to stone merely Is ) the aid of pressure; printers' ink, however, dries so quickly, that, unless the transfer be made almost immediately, the attempt will fail. But Mr. Black lock informs us that. by a cheap chemical process which he has Oiscose red, the ink of print; and letter-press, however old and dig. may be expeditiously brought into a condition which admits of its being tranferred and printed from, without in the slightest degree injuring the original copy ; of course the na ture of this chemical process is at present a secret, nor Lars we seen any printed work produced by these means. s.......mrsuensm...."AmwmmarawmawonOw.ElS The NEW FLAT GOLD WATCHES arc offered in doable-bottomed engine-turned eases, n•itla vertical movements, for Seven Guineas each, or, with highly. finished hori zontal movements, jewelled and warranted, at Nine Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N. B._ horizontal constructio❑ is strongly recommended for its superior .1311?THS. On the 2d inst., the wife of T. M. Alsager, Esq., of Queen square, Bloorut.bury, of a daughter, still-born. On the 2d inst., the lady of Thomas 'Turner, Esq., of Montagu street, Russell-square, of a daughter. On the 27th ult. , the lady of C. H. Turner, jun., El., of Lee place, Godstone, of a son, still-born. Oa the Ist in 4., Mrs. J. Day, Fitzroy-square, of a daughter. On the 24th oh., the lady of the lion. Major-Gerpral Paken ham, of a son. On the 28th ult., at lirimted Lodge, Suss?i, the 11.4 of Fred. Ilradburne, Esq., of a son. MAR 111 E D. On the 30th ult., at the Parish Church of St. Martin Orgar, London, Mr. Gsorge Checidey Stanley, of Newington, to Amelia, youngest daughter of William Hills, Esq., of Milton, near Sitting bourne. On the Ist inst., at Margate, Francis W. Tuach, Esq., of Fres ton, Lancashire, to Frances Ann, daughter of Jarias Wriet, of the former place. DIED. On the 30th ult., ix Manchester-street, Manchester-ignore , Win. Jones, Esq., surgeon. On the 20th of November, Frances, wife of W. Hanley, Esq., of the Island of St. Lucia. On the 17th ult., in lleathcote-street, Mrs. Jackson, relict of Colonel Jackson, and daughter of the late Lieut.-Gsneral Itudhoad• On the 2d inst., at St. Paul's School, Herbert, infant son of the Rev. James Cooper. At East Dulwich, on the l st inst., Emily, e'dest daughter of IL Robinson, Esq., aged 23. On the 29th ult., at Farnham, Surrey, Ana, wife of G. Miller, Esq , agcd 65. London Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of Nu -112, Strand, at This Sy,IL Office, No. Strand, in till countY of Middlesex.—Thursday, January 4, 18384